Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waited for the train to come in Prince George, in immaculate morning dress, fingered his top hat nervously for some 15 minutes, waved once or twice to the hundreds of British women who kept waving at him from behind police lines. As Princess Marina stepped out in a sleek, brick-red ensemble Prince George took her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek, received a kiss on his cheek in return...
...give it up, he became a composer. He dislikes all opera but Wagner, favors Strauss, Schumann, Brahms, Hoagie Carmichael. When he makes enough money from his music, he intends producing straight drama. He is now writing the music for a Dietz adaptation of The Three-Cornered Hat...
...story, "Poor Man's Plane" in TIME, Sept. 10, would surely indicate that Director Eugene L. Vidal of the Department of Commerce in calling for bids on 25 new planes for his inspectors, had hoped to pull out of the hat a plane for the public to sell for $700, and had failed. In order to understand . . . the entire project, it is necessary to consider the following facts...
...arrived in Berlin, and as a representative of the Saturday Evening Post put up at the Adlon. Her registration blank went from the hotel to the police, from the police to the secret service. In a few hours a very polite young man in civilian clothes arrived with his hat in one hand and an official letter in the other. It might or might not have been signed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, but it did ask Mrs. Lewis to leave Germany within 24 hours. If she desired, she might have an additional 24 hours leeway. At the end of that...
...Manhattan some of his banker friends telephoned him to go over to Fifth Avenue & 14th Street. Hearn's was for sale, they said. Mr. Levin protested that he knew nothing about department stores, had in fact never been inside one. But he put on his hat and went over. Inside the ancient barnlike building 450 employes waited forlornly for the store to collapse. Sales for the previous year had been barely $5,000,000. Inventories were down to nothing and few manufacturers dared extend credit to Hearn's. So Mr. Levin bought the store...